Kilfane House

Country house in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1795–1800

Detached five-bay three-storey over basement Classical-style country house, built 1798, on a symmetrical U-shaped plan with single-bay three-storey breakfront having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor, and three-bay single-storey (flush) flanking wings. Extensively renovated and extended, 1855-6, comprising three-bay two-storey (full-height) recessed flanking blocks having single-bay single-storey projecting bays to ground floor rear (west) elevations with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed flanking entrance bays added to (original) porch. Restored, pre-1973. Hipped slate roofs behind parapets (gabled to projecting bays to west) with rolled lead ridges, rendered and red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses supporting carved cut-granite coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods (some on rendered eaves having iron ties). Flat roof to porch and to flanking entrance bays not visible behind parapet. Unpainted replacement rendered, ruled and lined walls, pre-1973, with friezes supporting carved cut-granite cornices having blocking courses to parapets, granite ashlar walls to porch with fluted Greek Doric columns having responsive pilasters supporting frieze, carved cut-granite cornice, blocking course to parapet, and moulded pediments to gables to projecting bays to west. Square-headed window openings (some in tripartite arrangement

Type:
Country house

Period:
1795–1800

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.55°N, 7.12°W

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